Excerpt from The Lives and Services of Major General John Thomas, Colonel Thomas Knowlton, Colonel Alexander Scammell, Major General Henry Dearborn Having long been satisfied from the general history of the Revolution, that no officer deserved the esteem and respect of his country, more than General Thomas, I have been led to look more particularly into the grounds of the high estimation in which he was held by Washington, Congress, the army and the country, and am satisfied his fame was not ephemeral, but well founded. In this inquiry, valuable letters from Generals Washington, Lee, and Schuyler, and from John Adams, never before published, have come to light, and are of such value, connected with the early movements of the Revolution, as to induce my consent that the whole should be published. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.